Mónica García-Salmones Rovira, The Necessity of Nature: God, Science and Money in 17th Century English Law of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 504 pp.

The project of the book is stated at the outset. Three main theses are developed in this book. The first of these states that a deep understanding of the history of natural law will facilitate the task of addressing the current issues of the Anthropocene era with respect to the period of modern Europe. The second thesis regards the metaphysics of human nature, and of nature more broadly, and analyses the consequences of the disappearance of nature as a sacred space. The third thesis refers to the new concept of natural law in England during the 17th century and says that the leading scientists and natural lawyers supported their liberal ideology on the ground of a doctrine of necessity and necessities. This is probably the most significant result the innovative inquiry of Mónica García-Salmones Rovira puts forward, because it introduces a novel interpretation of classic writers in the history of political thought, such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.